Government News

Environmentalists have delivered a petition to ban single-use plastic bags at Victoria’s Parliament House.

The Queensland Government has decreased new land valuations on properties near a contaminated aviation base.

Humans appear to have slowed down the rate at which they are destroying the planet.

The NSW Government will pay offshore firms $2.3 billion... 

Mary O’Kane has won the inaugural Ada Lovelace Medal for outstanding engineering.

The COAG Energy Council has outlined steps to energy market reform.

Adani has defeated the latest legal challenge to its planned Carmichael coal mine.

Activists claim the ‘Big Three’ energy retailers are massively over-charging South Australian customers.

The Tasmanian Government has ditched its plan to lower the compulsory school starting age.

Simon Birmingham says higher education providers are acting like “petulant toddlers” ...

Creative and emotional intelligence will be the keys to robot-proofing the workforce...

Scitech - Western Australia's leading science education centre – is moving in next to the new WA Museum.

Moody’s has reaffirmed Australia’s AAA credit rating.

Australia’s big banks are caught up in an international rate rigging trial that could cost them billions.

The illegal Manus Island regional processing centre will be closed down, at some point.

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection is looking to cut hundreds of jobs.

WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has raided the offices of a council that says it has nothing to hide.

Bendigo’s mayor says a controversial council review was worth it.

Victoria threatened the jobs of over 100 councillors, but will now bring in a bill to save them.

Voting on Victoria’s controversial CFA pay deal will not happen until a Supreme Court trial is over.